Read news items from our 2019 archives.
The New Zealand School of Music—Te Kōkī (NZSM) recently celebrated the learning and achievements of its film composition students and graduates in its first annual Film Scoring Showcase. Hosted by the the Roxy Cinema in Miramar, the Showcase featured a 28-piece orchestra of NZSM students who performed a series of film score compositions live to accompany films on the big screen.
A year 13 student at Auckland's Westlake Girls High School has won first place in the 2019 International Institute of Modern Letters' (IIML) National Schools Poetry Award, with her poem 'Mammalian'.
Victoria University of Wellington welcomes a major step forward with plans to establish a national music centre in central Wellington, which would house the University’s New Zealand School of Music—Te Kōkī (NZSM).
Fundraising for the planned national music centre in Wellington's Te Ngākau Civic Square is well on track, with the total now at $18 million.
Victoria University of Wellington London-based alumna Julia Paton is giving back to the University through the establishment of an endowed scholarship at Master’s level.
Religious Studies student Ella Buchanan will be seeing first-hand the culture, traditions, and religious sites in India that underpin her studies. Ella will experience India as part of the Reimagining India programme on a Prime Minister’s Scholarship for Asia.
English for Vocational Purposes: Language Use in Trades Education is the result of an interdisciplinary study from Dr Averil Coxhead and Dr Jean Parkinson (School of Linguistics and Applied Language Studies, Victoria University of Wellington), and Weltec’s literary specialist Emma McLaughlin and science education specialist James Mackay.
A new Bachelor’s degree being offered by Victoria University of Wellington will help meet growing global demand for expert communicators who can help shape and reflect the most important issues facing the world into the future.
The New Zealand Asian Studies Society held its 23rd Biennial Conference at Victoria University of Wellington from 24–27 November. Attended by over 150 delegates from around the world as well as from New Zealand, with participants coming from Australia, North America, Europe and Asia itself, the conference was a great success.
